Letter to the editor: Common Core developed with no educator input

Everyone agrees that standards are necessary. Health care providers, electricians, chemists and so many others have standards written for their professions. Even educators need standards.

These professions' standards are written by their respective professionals, except for educators, the professionals who actually teach children. The Common Core Standards, written in 2009, were primarily written by five individuals, two of which had no experience writing standards. No local school boards had any input for these standards. Many on the validation committees were those that had educational consulting positions or college professors. And of course Arne Duncan, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, has said that his job was to help the states succeed in adopting these standards.

These standards were not reviewed by local educators and have not been used to measure success rates.

Wouldn't it be best to see what works and doesn't work before forcing these standards on the children in 44 states, including Louisiana, and 87 percent of public school students?

Desiree Hanvy

Lafayette

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Letter to the editor: Common Core developed with no educator input

Everyone agrees that standards are necessary. Health care providers, electricians, chemists and so many others have standards written for their professions. Even educators need standards.

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